A North Wind

We had a visit this weekend from my parents and brother from New York (i.e., Grandma Alice, Grandpa Richard, and Uncle Patrick), so Nicholas got a lot of quality family time.

Unfortunately, his initial reaction was ... well, less than stellar.  He has figured out now that when new people show up at our door, it often means that we're about to leave him at home and go somewhere.  Needless to say, that makes the new people rather unpopular, usually to the tune of bawling and becoming very clingy (which he's not on a day-to-day basis).  But he warmed up and had a great time with new playmates who have all sorts of different games from what he usually gets to play.

Friday we took a ride down into DC to enjoy the beautiful weather and check out the cherry blossoms.  We had quite the fun time walking around the Lincoln Memorial side of the Mall, wandering through Foggy Bottom, and just plain old enjoying the spring weather.  Nicholas, on the other hand, managed to sleep through much of it, which led to a series of photos reminiscent of Weekend at Bernie's:

From 2010 April

On the bright side (no pun intended), Nicholas finally took to wearing his new sunglasses, which should help keep him from squinting a lot:

From 2010 April

Then today, of course, we celebrated Easter with Sarah's parents and cousin.  Nicholas got his first Easter basket, we got lots of candy (thanks Mom!), and we enjoyed a fantastic meal.  This week's going to be crazy, so it was very rejuvenating to have a nice, relatively relaxed holiday.  There are, as always, more photos in the Peanut Gallery, but I'll leave you with our "Easter Family Portrait" for this year, since we all got dressed up—and got Nicholas in a springtime argyle sweater vest!

From 2010 April